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Les provinciales, ou Les lettres e'crites par Louis de Montalte; a vn provincial de ses amis, & aux r.r. pp. jesuites: sur le sujet de la morale, & de la politique de ces peres.

Accession number
Heineman 324
Creator
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
Published
A Cologne [i.e. Amsterdam], Chés Pierre de la Vallée [i.e. Louis and Daniel Elzebier], M. DC. LVII. [1657]
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
Contains eighteen letters, Jan. 23, 1656 to Mar. 24, 1657; Reponse du provincial aux deux premieres lettres, and Refutation de la Réponse a la dovziéme lettre. Each piece paged separately (8 p., except the 16th and 18th letters, 12 p. each).
False imprint: actually printed by Louis and Daniel Elzevier. See related 12mo edition cited in Copinger, Rahir, and Willems.
Library copy missing final letter: ends with 16 January 1657 letter rather than 24 March.
Description
[2], 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 12, 8, 12 pages ; 25 cm (4to)
Provenance
Baron de Lurde, armorial bookplate and binding; Louis Barthou, bookplate; Dannie and Hettie Heineman.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet for Lurde.
Classification
Department